[fpc-pascal] Windows programming tutorials for FPC

[Tomas Hajny]

On Sat, November 3, 2018 23:04, James wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion...
>
> I put my code in the OnCreate event as you suggested, but when I try to
> compile it, I get wrong number of parameters specified for call to
> Assign... my code worked before, and I have no idea what other parameters
> it could want or why it would be any different than my console
> application.
>
> I'm doing:
> Var
>    TapFileName : AnsiString;
>    TapFile  : Text;
>
> Assign(TapFile,TapFileName);

I guess that System.Assign(TapFile,TapFileName); should work for you.


> Any ideas why this works in FPC but not in Lazarus?

Probably a conflict with another Assign with a different functionality and
different syntax. I don't use Lazarus myself, but I'm sure it provides a
way to show where Assign is declared and how.

Tomas